Diane Geraci

2009 William H. Flanigan Award for Distinguished Service as an ICPSR Official Representative

Diane has had an extraordinary career, and she is still going strong. She is currently Associate
Director for Information Resources at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, with responsibility
for acquisitions and licensing, cataloging and metadata services, collection management including
conservation and preservation services, Institute Archives and special collections, and technology operations.

Prior to moving to MIT, she served as Librarian for the Social Sciences at Harvard College Library, held
joint appointments as the Director of Science Libraries in the University of Michigan University Library
and Faculty Associate at ICPSR, and held various positions at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) at the University
of Essex and at Binghamton University Libraries. At the U-M Libraries she contributed to system-wide
planning efforts including the development of Deep Blue, the U-M institutional repository. Her responsibilities
at the UKDA included senior management responsibility for information systems development, digital preservation,
and systems administration.

Diane taught a one-week course in the ICPSR Summer Program on providing social science data services
with Chuck Humphrey and Jim Jacobs for over 15 years. Her professional contributions include serving in
advisory and consulting roles for several groups: the Digital Preservation Workshop Advisory Board at ICPSR;
the SEDAC User Working Group at CIESIN, Columbia University; the ICPSR Council and the ICPSR External
Process Review Committee; and the IASSIST Administrative Council and Program Committees. Her interests
and expertise include developing research support services, digital preservation, implementing new
information technologies, management of libraries and information services, and social science data
archives.

As is evident from these many contributions, Diane is committed to supporting the research process and
to data stewardship; she is always ready to share her expertise and to participate where she can be of
service. Diane is also an expert in effective management of change. This was important since her term on
the ICPSR Council was a period of great change. During her years on Council, 1998-2002, ICPSR separated
from CPS, had a transition in leadership, and moved offices. Diane's presence on the Council was a guiding
hand, helping ICPSR to rise to new challenges with positive outcomes.